It was a long drive for the college tour- four hours on the way there, and 3.5 on the way back. I thought I was going to be super tired for the drive home, but I wasn’t. I was thinking how lucky I was that I got to spend the day with my kid- even … Continue reading Stay Gold
Teens
How to Deal
This is a picture of a closed door. This is very common in my house. I have teenagers. I should write a blog titled “How to Deal with Cranky Teens.” It could be one of the shortest blogs in history. It could start out like this… “I don’t even know.” And it … Continue reading How to Deal
My Three Words, Teen Edition
I've often said how thankful I am that, as a parent, we (collectively) get to grow into the phase of parenting teenagers... that if I had to learn how to parent teens first, I'd have suffered a nervous breakdown within the first month. Parenting babies and toddlers, by comparison, now seems easy to … Continue reading My Three Words, Teen Edition
Gretchen L. Mulroy 